Politics/Geopolitics

Bloomberg President Donald Trump has a plan. It’ll be ready in two weeks. From overhauling the tax code to releasing an infrastructure package to making decisions on NAFTA and the Paris climate agreement, Trump has […]

Bloomberg Vladimir Putin shrugged off Donald Trump’s decision to abandon the most ambitious effort to combat global warming, marking the third time in two days that the Russian president came to the defense of his […]

Bloomberg Pope Francis joined an international campaign to persuade Donald Trump to meet U.S. commitments on climate change in talks at the Vatican Wednesday. Francis gave the U.S. president a copy of his 2015 encyclical calling […]

Bloomberg President Donald Trump would dramatically reduce the U.S. government’s role in society with $3.6 trillion in spending cuts over the next 10 years in a budget plan that shrinks the safety net for the […]

Bloomberg Donald Trump won the presidency on the promise he’d drain the swamp. This week, the swamp struck back. The naming Wednesday of former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate the Russian […]

The Landscape of the Left Bloomberg Democrats are struggling to challenge President Donald Trump, and with control over nothing in Washington, they’re relying for now on the power of saying “no.” The minority party won major […]

FactCheck.Org By Eugene Kiely Why did President Donald Trump fire FBI Director James Comey? The president and top administration officials have offered contradictory accounts in recent days: The official White House statement on May 9 […]

Bloomberg Germany, Brazil and Mexico are all due to vote in next 18 months. The French presidential election is over. But political risk hasn’t gone away. Here’s a look at the other major elections coming […]

Business Insider Emmanuel Macron won the French presidential election in a landslide on Sunday, becoming the youngest president in France’s history. Macron, a 39-year-old pro-business centrist, defeated Marine Le Pen, a far-right nationalist who called […]

BBC The two candidates hoping to be France’s next president are making a final push for votes on the last day of campaigning before Sunday’s election. Centrist Emmanuel Macron – who has a substantial lead […]